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1. (n.) chlorine
a halogen element, a heavy, greenish yellow poisonous gas: used to purify water and to make bleaching powder and various chemicals.
Etymology: (1810; < Gk
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1. (noun) chlorine, Cl, atomic number 17
a common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water)
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1. (noun) chlorine
one of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4
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1. chlorine
elementary, greenish-yellow gas obtained from common salt; powerful as a disinfectant, and a bleaching agent.
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1. chlorine
A greenish-yellow, diatomic gas that is a member of the halogen family of elements. It has the atomic symbol Cl, atomic number 17, and atomic weight 70.906. It is a powerful irritant that can cause fatal pulmonary edema. Chlorine is used in manufacturing, as a reagent in synthetic chemistry, for water purification, and in the production of chlorinated lime, which is used in fabric bleaching.
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Sense: an element, a yellowish-green gas with a suffocating smell, used as a disinfectant etc
They put too much chlorine in the swimming-pool.
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